KARACHI: Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has welcomed sealing of an illegal medical college, Hashmat Medical & Dental College in Jalal Pur Jattan, Gujrat, and recovery of Rs48 million fees from the college administration, which was charged illegally from students.
Secretary General, Pakistan Medical Association (Centre), Dr. S.M. Qaisar Sajjad, in a statement, said FIA and PMDC submitted their reports to the court, which were against the college.
According to FIA the college has failed to provide the receipts of the fee collected from the students. As per the PMDC report on the inspection conducted in March 2018, the college failed to meet the basic requirements of PMDC to register a medical college.
In this inspection the college got only 414 marks out of 1000.
Dr Qaiser said the PMA has been continuously raising its voice since long against mushrooming growth of medical colleges in the country. Fact of the matter is that there are already 144 medical & dental colleges (101 medical & 43 dental colleges) in the country, majority of them private, but as far as the teaching and training facilities are concerned, with the exception of few one, all lack the basic requirement according to guidelines of PMDC.
He asked do we have 144 professors of basic medical sciences and 500 bedded 144 hospitals with training facilities across the country? The answer is a no.
“This means we are imparting substandard medical education to produce substandard medical graduates to run the healthcare of this unfortunate poor nation.”
He said the PMA believes that instead of recognizing more and more substandard institutions, PMDC shouldn’t allow any new medical college to be established but at the same time deal firmly with all those medical colleges which do not fulfill the standards made by PMDC. This is entirely the responsibility of PMDC to register, and monitor the recognized medical colleges, according to the rules & regulations of PMDC.